On this day: March 18

Britain repeals the Stamp Act, Lord Stanley announces plans for a hockey cup, a cosmonaut goes for the first space walk, and OPEC ends its oil embargo against the United States, all on this day.

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State of Hawaii

1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on Aug. 21, 1959.

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